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2nd suspect charged in Tewksbury carjacking, assault

By Robert Mills, rmills@lowellsun.com

Updated:
01/30/2013 06:35:29 AM EST

BOSTON -- Tewksbury and Boston police teamed up to make a second arrest in connection with a Dec. 26 incident at Motel 6 in Tewksbury, in which a man was beaten, robbed, carjacked and kidnapped at knifepoint.

Suspect Jeffrey Venter, 23, of Boston, was arrested in early January on similar charges after police recovered the victim's vehicle in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. Venter is being held on $2,500 cash bail.

Spencer and Brown are accused of holding an unidentified man at knifepoint in the parking lot of the Motel 6, robbing him of personal belongings and punching him several times.

They are also accused of threatening to kill the man, and of forcing the man into his own car at knifepoint, and then stealing his car.

The victim escaped in Lowell and reported the assault to police.

Spencer was arraigned in Lowell District Court on Jan. 22, but the results of that proceeding were not immediately available.

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